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the final installments of H P Lovecraft's thrilling tale of eldritch horror in the antarctic, read by MorganScorpion
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Topics: Lovecraft, horror, antarctic, ancient, prehistoric, alien
LibriVox recording of The History of the Caliph Vathek by William Beckford. Read by MorganScorpion. This is one of the earliest Gothic novels. The Caliph Vathek is one of the wealthiest and most powerful men who ever lived. But this is not enough for him. He seeks also forbidden knowledge, and doesn't care who he has to hurt to get it. Aided by his depraved mother Carathis, Vathek proceeds to damn himself, and those around him. (Introduction by MorganScorpion) For further information, including...
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Topics: librivox, literature, audiobook, gothic, caliph, Beckford, William Beckford, Carathis, damnation...
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
An occasional collection of 10 horror stories by various readers. We aim to unsettle you a little, to cut through the pink cushion of illusion that shields you from the horrible realities of life. Here are the walking dead, the fetid pools of slime, the howls in the night that you thought you had confined to your more unpleasant dreams. Readers include: MorganScorpion Ernst Pattynama Matthias Whitney Mooseboy Alfonzo heshman08 Reynard T. Fox Alex C. Telander Alecia For further information,...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, fiction, horror
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
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Episode 69 is the first of two parts to our Halloween special bonus episodes. This week Morgan Scorpion reads H. P. Lovecraft's The Shunned House. We're also joined by The Shadow and its Halloween special from 1937 and starring the great Orson Wells! Time to grab that bag of candy and prepare to be terrified! Intro song created by dAmbeint from freesound. Check out some more of his work: https://www.freesound.org/people/dAmbient/ The Shunned House was read by the great Morgan Scorpion. She...
LibriVox recording of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book IV by John Locke. Read in English by Gillian Hendrie; Pamela Nagami; Jennifer Henry; Matthew Bennett; Kathleen Moore; Kristine Bekere; WalrusEnsemble; MorganScorpion; locturne; Johan Supertramp; Craig Campbell; ChadH94 This is the fourth book of John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding. His book deals with knowledge and probability. He asks how far knowledge can go, if there are universal propositions, what are judgment...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, enlightenment, knowledge, english language, english philosopher, probability
LibriVox recording of The Fasti by Publius (Ovid) Ovidius Naso. (Translated by John Benson Rose.) Read in English by Arnie Horton; crossandra; MorganScorpion; Leni; Rory Haye The Fasti is a Latin poem in six books, written by Ovid and believed to have been published in 8 AD. The Fasti is organized according to the Roman calendar and explains the origins of Roman holidays and associated customs, often through the mouths of deities and with multiple aetiologies. The poem was left unfinished when...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, Classics, Latin literature, Epic, Mythology
LibriVox recording of Hellenic History by George Willis Botsford. Read in English by Beth Thomas (1974-2020); ChadH94; MajorHistory; Emanuela; Wes Freeman; Sim; MorganScorpion; Kazbek; Jane Bennett; Ryan Fahey; KevinS; Jason Daves. With help from Lynette Caulkins. In memory of Beth Thomas. "The purpose of this volume is to present in brief scope the evolution of Greek civilization a culture simple in its essential unity, although seemingly complex in its many and wide ramifications. In the...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks
LibriVox recording of An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume (1711 - 1776). Read in English by Ruth Golding; MorganScorpion; gscheids; Lucas Boulding; Anthony Webster; Amy Koenig. David Hume, an eminent Scottish philosopher, historian, and essayist, explores the nature and foundation of Morals in this book, which was written as a popular summary of Book III in A Treatise of Human Nature. Hume states: “There has been a controversy started of late, much better worth...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, ethics, morals, justice, reason
LibriVox recording of Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 6 by Giorgio Vasari. (Translated by Gaston du C. de Vere.) Read in English by Elsie Selwyn; MorganScorpion; Leon Harvey; PhyllisV; Lucretia B.; mariaspin; Yvonne Theodor; Theoden Humphrey; Xiaoyan Arrowsmith; Dick Bourgeois-Doyle The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times (in the original Italian, Le Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, biography, italian art, painters, italian renaissance
LibriVox recording of The Stones of Venice, volume 3 by John Ruskin. Read in English by MorganScorpion, ToddHW, Malone and Alan Weyman The Stones of Venice is a three-volume treatise on Venetian art and architecture by English art historian John Ruskin, first published from 1851 to 1853. Intending to prove how the architecture in Venice exemplified the principles he discussed in his earlier work, The Seven Lamps of Architecture, Ruskin examined the city in detail, describing for example over...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, Gothic, renaissance, venice, architecture, churches, byzantine
LibriVox recording of The Aeneid by Virgil. Translated by John William MacKail Read in English by Bob Neufeld; TRUEBRIT; Mary J; Kelseigh; readerfromtexas; MorganScorpion; Peter Tucker; Lawrence; KHand; Mary Schneider The Aeneid is the most famous Latin epic poem, written by Virgil in the 1st century BC. The story revolves around the legendary hero Aeneas, a Trojan prince who left behind the ruins of his city and led his fellow citizens to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. The...
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Topics: librivox, audiobooks, rome, Latin Literature, augustus
LibriVox recording of Melmoth The Wanderer by Charles Robert Maturin. Read in English by Beth Thomas; James K. White; Martin; MorganScorpion; Kendra Lee Oberhauser; Andrew Huguelet; Jim Locke; Molly Craig; DJRickyV; Tony Addison; Mark Chulsky; Kertz. One of the first horror novels, it tells the story of Melmoth, who sells his soul so he could have an extended life. Throughout the novel, he wanders around the world in search of someone who would replace him and lift his curse. It is known for...
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Topics: librivox, audiobooks, fiction, horror, love, Inquisition, madness, many narratives, wandering
LibriVox recording of Enquire Within Upon Everything by Robert Kemp Philp. Read in English by Susan Morin; MaryAnnS; Anna Simon; Larry Wilson; Kenita; Michele Eaton; Nathan Heck; BettyB; MorganScorpion; Chairlie; Diana Schmidt; Lynne Thompson; Amelia Chesley; Linda Andrus; Jennifer Fournier Enquire Within Upon Everything was a book of how to do things in domestic life It was first published in 1856 by Houlston and Sons of Paternoster Square in London. Robert Kemp Philp. It was then continuously...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, reference, how to for domestic life
LibriVox recording of An Account of Egypt by Herodotus by Herodotus. (Translated by George Campbell Macaulay.) Read in English by Phil Chenevert; MorganScorpion; DrPGould; Pamela Nagami; Linda Johnson; Sondra Robinson HERODOTUS was born at Halicarnassus, on the southwest coast of Asia Minor, in the early part of the fifth century, B. C. Of his life we know almost nothing, except that he spent much of it traveling, to collect the material for his writings, and that he finally settled down at...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks
LibriVox recording in Ancient Greek of Book 6 of the Odyssey, by Homer. Read by Zoe Dickinson, hefyd, and MorganScorpion. Nausicaa,daughter of Alcinous, king of the Phaeacians is asleep when Athena comes to her to suggest that she go down to the river the next morning, with her attendants. So the next morning Nausicaa persuades her parents to lend her a wagon to take clothes down to the river for washing. The party goes down to the washing pool. Nausicaa is about to fold and put away the...
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Topics: librivox, audiobook, ancient greek, classics, epic, poetry, hexameter
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
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Dec 28, 2009
12/09
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H P Lovecraft's tale of supernatural happeenings aboard a German U-boat in WW1.
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Topics: Lovecraft, supernatural, horror
My own reading of H.P. Lovecraft's short story, "The Colour Out Of Space", published in Amazing Stories in September 1927, making it a Public Domain work in Europe. Plot Summary from Wikipedia; "The Colour Out of Space" is a first-person narrative written from the perspective of an unnamed surveyor from Boston. In order to prepare for the construction of a new reservoir in Massachusetts, he surveys a rural area that is to be flooded near Lovecraft's fictional town of Arkham....
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Topic: H.P. Lovecraft, fiction, Lovecraft, Weird Fiction
LibriVox recording of The People of the Abyss, by Jack London. Read by Peter Yearsley. Jack London lived for a time within the grim and grimy world of the East End of London, where half a million people scraped together hardly enough on which to survive. Even if they were able to work, they were paid only enough to allow them a pitiful existence. He grew to know and empathise with these forgotten (or ignored) people as he spoke with them and tasted the workhouse, life on the streets, ... and...
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Topics: librivox, audiobook, London, poor, destitute, exploitation
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
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Sep 19, 2013
09/13
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MorganScorpion
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Edward Fredric Benson wrote some seriously disturbing and scary tales in addition to his delightful social satires. This is one of the scariest.
Topics: horror, terror, supenatural, grotesque
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Dec 25, 2010
12/10
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MorganScorpion
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Edgar Allan Poe's poem about a raven with a morbid line in repartee. Or is it?
Topics: Poe, Raven, Horror, Corvidae
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Feb 9, 2010
02/10
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Murray Ewing & MorganScorpion
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"What a curious thing," said Alice "One might easily lose one's balance," As she walked through the labyrinthine tangles Of the sea-risen city's impossible angles ...and so Alice meets Howard Phillips Lovecraft in the nightmare corpse-city of R'lyeh, and there they discuss nonsense & meaninglessness, until interrupted by... Certain Entities of an Unusual Nature... Bringing together the imaginative worlds of H P Lovecraft and Lewis Carroll, Alice at R'lyeh explores the...
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Topics: Lovecraft, Cthulhu, R'lyeh, Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, spoken word, poetry
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Aug 5, 2011
08/11
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J S LeFanu
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J S LeFanu's Victorian Gothic vampire tale, read by MorganScorpion.
Topics: Vampire, Gothic, Horror, Terror, Supernatural, Obsession
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Jul 5, 2013
07/13
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H P Lovecraft
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H P Lovecraft's tale of feline revenge. Recorded by MorganScorpion.
Topics: Lovecraft, horror, terror
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Sep 19, 2013
09/13
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H P Lovecraft
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H P Lovecraft's tale of ancestral horrors, read by MorganScorpion.
Topics: Lovecraft, horror, terror, supernatural, atavism, avatar
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Aug 2, 2011
08/11
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J S LeFanu
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J S LeFanu's Gothic vampire story, read by Gothic MorganScorpion.
Topics: Vampire, Gothic, Horror, Terror, Supernatural, Obsession
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Jul 8, 2013
07/13
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Conrad Aiken
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Conrad Aiken's tale of juvenile insanity, recorded by MorganScorpion.
Topics: horror, terror, madness, insanity
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Jul 6, 2013
07/13
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Allan Poe's The Oval Portrait, recorded by MorganScorpion.
Topics: horror, terror, vampirism
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Aug 8, 2011
08/11
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J S LeFanu
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J S LeFanu's Victorian Gothic vampire tale, read by Morganscorpion.
Topics: Vampire, Gothic, Horror, Terror, Supernatural, Obsession
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Aug 1, 2011
08/11
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J S LeFanu
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J S LeFanu's victorian Gothic vampire tale, read by MorganScorpion.
Topics: Vampire, Gothic, Horror, Terror, Supernatural, Obsession
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Aug 11, 2011
08/11
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J S LeFanu
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J S LeFanu's Classic vampire talem read by MorganScorpion.
Topics: Vampire, Gothic, Horror, Terror, Supernatural, Obsession
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H P Lovecraft's prose poem, read by MorganScorpion.
Topics: Lovecraft, Azathoth, Dreamland, Escape
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Jan 20, 2011
01/11
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H P Lovecraft
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Lovecraft's eldritch tale of subterranean horror, read by MorganScorpion.
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Topics: Lovecraft, horror, terror, ghoul, tomb
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Jun 24, 2009
06/09
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H P Lovecraft
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H P Lovecraft's tale of invisible terror, read by MorganScorpion
Topics: mad scientist, ultra-violet, Lovecraft, horror, sci-fi
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Apr 27, 2011
04/11
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H P Lovecraft
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H P Lovecraft's tale of wizardry and malignancy, read by MorganScorpion
Topics: Lovecraft, horror, terror, Necronomicon, Innsmouth
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Jul 31, 2011
07/11
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J S LeFanu
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J S LeFanu's Victorian Gothic novel of vampirism and innocence betrayed. Read by MorganScorpion.
Topics: Vampire, Gothic, Horror, Terror, Supernatural, Obsession
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Aug 4, 2011
08/11
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J S LeFanu
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J S LeFanu's Gothic tale of vampirism set in Styria. Read by MorganScorpion.
Topics: Vampire, Gothic, Horror, Terror, Supernatural, Obsession
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Aug 24, 2009
08/09
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H P Lovecraft
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Second part of Lovecraft's tale of primeval terror set in Antarctica. Read by MorganScorpion.
Topics: horror, Lovecraft, alien, prehistoric, primeval
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Oct 25, 2009
10/09
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H P Lovecraft
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H P Lovecraft's tale of necromancy and occultism set in his beloved Providence, read by MorganScorpion
Topics: Lovecraft, horror, occultism, necromancy, Providence
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Nov 30, 2009
11/09
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H P Lovecraft
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H P Lovecraft's tale of necromancy and occultism, set in his beloved Proovidence, read by MorganScorpion
Topics: Lovecraft, horror, occultism, necromancy, Providence
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Nov 22, 2009
11/09
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H P Lovecraft
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H P Lovecraft's novel of necromancy and occultism set in his beloved Providence, read by MorganScorpion
Topics: Lovecraft, horror, occultism, necromancy, Providence
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Jul 5, 2013
07/13
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem about Britain's greatest military blunder. Recorded by MorganScorpion.
Topics: poetry, military, Crimean War, tragedy, Victorian
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Aug 11, 2011
08/11
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J S LeFanu
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Conclusion of J S LeFanu's haunting Gothic vampire tale, read by MorganScorpion.
Topics: Vampire, Gothic, Horror, Terror, Supernatural, Obsession
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Jul 31, 2011
07/11
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J S LeFanu
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J S LeFanu's classic tale of a young woman's encounter with a Vampire; read by MorganScorpion
Topics: Vampire, Gothic, Horror, Terror, Supernatural, Obsession
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Aug 8, 2011
08/11
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J S LeFanu
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J S LeFanu's Victorian Gothic vampire tale, set in Styria. Read by MorganScorpion.
Topics: Vampire, Gothic, Horror, Terror, Supernatural, Obsession
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Jul 8, 2013
07/13
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Ambrose Bierce
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Ambrose Bierce's strangest tale, The Death of Halpin Frayser. Recorded by MorganScorpion
Topics: horror, terror, supernatural, ghost, vampire, mystery.
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Nov 1, 2009
11/09
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H P Lovecraft
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H P Lovecraft's novella of necromancy and occultism set in his beloved Providence. Read by MorganScorpion
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Topics: Lovecraft, horror, occultism, necromancy, Providence
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Jul 7, 2009
07/09
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H P Lovecraft
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H P Lovecraft's chilling tale about an "unlucky" house. Read by MorganScorpion.
Topics: Lovecraft, horror, vampire
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Aug 5, 2011
08/11
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J S LeFanu
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J S LeFanu's Victorian Gothic tale of vampirism nd innocence betrayed. Read by MorganScorpion.
Topics: Vampire, Gothic, Horror, Terror, Supernatural, Obsession
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Jul 6, 2013
07/13
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Allan Poe's tale of a woman who didn't want to stay dead. Recorded by MorganScorpion.
Topics: horror, terror, Poe
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Jul 5, 2013
07/13
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H R Wakefield.
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H R Wakefield's story of a sacred grove, and a cursed tree. Recorded by MorganScorpion.
Topics: horror, terror, christmas ghost, ghost, haunted
